MADAM MAO’S GOLDEN OLDIESREPEATED 26TH OCTOBER 2013, FIRST BROADCAST 17TH JULY 2012BBC Radio 4 at 3.30pm, Saturday 26th October 2013Presented and co-written by Anna ChenProduced by Mukti Jain Campion for Culture Wise In Madam Mao’s Golden Oldies, I revisit the Chinese Cultural Revolution Model Operas that I first heard as a child in the 1960s […]
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Anna Chen – 11 October 2013, Wigan Pier workshops Some of the lovely students from the afternoon session of my Poetry Against the Cuts class at the Wigan Pier Workshops, presented by the Orwell Prize. The workshops are held in the delightful bright and airy Sunshine House Community Centre in Wigan where Barbara and her
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Look, no hands! Here’s me having a go at singing again at the St Ives Arts Festival in September. Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” backed by Charles Shaar Murray and Marc Jefferies, both doing a great job. Madam Miaow says … visit Anna Chen’s website here: Home Anna’s food blog here: http://annacheneats.blogspot.com/
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You’ve had cat gifs galore. Here’s a cat poem from my animal-loving friend Barbara Finch — a tale of the bird-murdering Nefertiti. Nefertiti PussOh God made creatures great and smallAnd Nefertiti kills them all.Bad Nefertiti Puss. That bird you see upon the wing,It dare not part its beak to singFor fear that down on it
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A few facts and figures to slash a path through the thicket of misinformation perpetrated by greedy swine who’d make the poor pay for their tax cuts. Gleaned from The Sunday Times Rich List figures, the collective wealth of the UK’s 1,000 richest rose 30 per cent in 2009 in wake of economic crisis. The
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I read some pert, perky and pertinent poetry at last night’s pre-The Fu Manchu Complex public debate at the Oval House Theatre. The main event in the evening, a satire by actor Daniel York who was at the centre of the RSC The Orphan of Zhao controversy, is a satirical view of the yellow peril
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